Our mission is simple—to help you become financially independent through algorithmic trading.

The Quantcademy is a private membership portal that caters to the rapidly-growing retail quantitative trader community.

The community provides a wealth of detailed posts covering the whole range of activities within quantitative finance. Systematic trading, asset allocation, risk management, coding tips, software development, machine learning, time series analysis and math help are all covered in our in-depth, topic-driven forum.

Whether you are a complete beginner or seasoned quant trading professional you will find a knowledgeable, like-minded group of quant traders ready and willing to answer your most pressing quant questions.

What's Covered In The Community Forum?

Quantitative finance is a large discipline and we've broken it down into four relevant areas—Quantitative Trading, Mathematical Finance, Programming & Software and Careers & Education.

Each forum provides a wealth of posts, from beginner through to advanced level—on the topics that matter most to the community—along with expert answers from top-ranking community members and QuantStart professionals. Topics include:

Quantitative Trading

Beginner Forum

Quantitative trading isn't an easy field to master, due to the mix of math, coding and financial knowledge required. We've made it straightforward for beginners to ask questions as they learn the ropes.

Systematic Trading

A dedicated forum on the topic of daily and intraday systematic trading strategy development. Our goal is to help you avoid common pitfalls and ramp up the profitability of your strategies.

Portfolio Management

Longer-term asset allocation using equities and ETFs is a hotly debated topic these days. Answers to your momentum, value and other portfolio construction strategies can be found here.

High Frequency Trading

Those who are trading on the sub-second level, or are researching market microstructure for new strategy development, will gain strong insight from experts in this dedicated forum.

Risk Management

Strong risk management for your strategies can mean the difference between profitability or going under. Gain answers on how to effectively manage risk within your portfolio.

Performance Evaluation

You may be generating profits with your strategies but what if you're taking on too much vol to do so? Learn how to properly measure your strategy performance from seasoned community members.

Trading Infrastructure

Strategy ideas are easy to find. What's harder is taking a strategy and coding up a fully-resilient remote infrastructure that automates your live trading. Learn from those who've done it here.

Vendors and Brokers

Finance is rife with vendors of varying quality. Data, brokerage and hosting are extremely important for the retail quant. Our impartial community vendor reviews will help guide your decisions.

External Capital

Eventually you might take the plunge and begin managing external money. Answers on capital raising, regulatory issues, third-party marketing and other fund issues are found here.